3rd Grade Goals
Reading Goals
Term 1 (September-November)
Unit 1: Building a Reading Life
- Students will review fiction story elements
- Students will read book with fluency
- Students will stop and check for comprehension of a text
- Students will practice envisioning to collect information from a text
- Students will make predictions about what will happen next
- Students will retell and summarize important events in a story, in order
- Students will use different reading strategies to help them figure out how to read tricky words
- Students will use expressions to read figurative language
- Students will consider Author’s Purpose in a text
- Students will write book reviews to recommend books to their peers
Unit 2: Mystery/Series
- Students will pay attention to clues in a mystery
- Students will make predictions thinking about the characters in the text
- Students will pay close attention to tricky parts in a mystery
- Students will pay close attention to the important parts of a mystery
- Students will get to know the characters in their texts
- Students will pay attention to character problems and how they react
- Students will compare and contrast characters across a series
- Students will read closely to monitor for sense
- Students will pay attention to character relationships in a series
- Students will retell and summarize important parts of a text
Writing Goals
Term 1 (September-November)
Unit 1: Narrative- Small Moments
- Students will identify a big event vs. a small moment
- Students will add characters, characters’ feelings, setting and sensory details in their stories
- Students will add an introduction, middle and conclusion in their small moment stories
- Students will revise and edit their stories using a checklist
Unit 2: Opinion Writing
- Students will take a stance on a topic
- Students will address their audience when taking a stance
- Students will give reasons to support their opinion
- Students will add introduction and conclusion in their persuasive writing
- Students will revise and edit their writing using a persuasive writing checklist
Math Goals
Term 1 (September-November)
Topic 1: Understanding Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers
- Students will use repeated addition to show the relationships between multiplication and addition
- Students will use number lines to join equal groups
- Students will use arrays and properties to understand multiplication
- Students will use sharing to separate equal groups to think about division
- Students will use repeated subtraction to understand the relationship between division and subtraction
Topic 2: Multiplication Facts: Use Patterns
- Students will gain fluency in multiplication
- Students will use number relationships and patterns to develop reasoning strategies to support their recall of the basic multiplication facts
Topic 3: Apply Properties: Multiplication Facts for 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
- Students will use the distributive property to solve problems with multiplication within 100
- Students will use different math tools and strategies to solve unknown facts: bar diagrams, arrays
- Students will use associative property of multiplication to group factors when multiplying
- Students will repeat reasoning with known facts to make generalizations when multiplying
Topic 4: Use Multiplication to Divide: Division Facts
- Students will use multiplication facts to divide
- Students will use even and odd numbers to identify multiplication patterns
- Students will use properties to understand division
- Students will use patterns and known facts to find unknown multiplication facts, which will help find related division facts
